in food prices appear likely to raise overall poverty in low income countries substantially. … poverty will certainly be very diverse, but the average impact on poverty depends upon the balance between these two effects …, and can only be determined by looking at real-world data. Results using household data for ten observations on nine low-income …

trade policies would lift large numbers of developing country farm households out of poverty. In the majority of cases these … gains are not outweighed by the poverty-increasing effects of higher food prices among other households. Agricultural … analysis indicates that maximal trade-led poverty reductions occur when developing countries participate more fully in …

to estimate the combined impact of such insulating behavior on poverty in various developing countries and globally. The … analysis finds that the actual poverty-reducing impact of insulation is much less than its apparent impact, and that its net … effect was to increase global poverty in 2008 by 8 million people, although this increase was not significantly different …